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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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90Health
Library npm

DOMPurify

DOM-only, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG that runs in the browser and on the server.

17,387
Apache 2.0
Used by 135
92Health
Library npm

undici

A fast, spec-compliant HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js, built from scratch with zero runtime dependencies

7,695
MIT
Used by 70
67Health
Library Go

jwt

A zero-dependency Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with pluggable HMAC, RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and Ed25519 signing methods.

9,225
MIT
Used by 62
93Health
Library PyPI

urllib3

A powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python with thread-safe connection pooling, TLS verification, and retry handling.

4,058
MIT
Used by 48
68Health
Library npm

proxy-agent

Maps HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC proxy protocols to the correct Node.js http.Agent implementation automatically.

1,161
MIT
Used by 47
90Health
Library npm

Prisma Client

Auto-generated, type-safe database client for Node.js and TypeScript.

47,610
Apache 2.0
Used by 46
85Health
Library PyPI

PyJWT

A Python implementation of RFC 7519 for encoding, decoding, and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

5,700
MIT
Used by 44
84Health
Library npm

sanitize-html

Allowlist-based HTML sanitizer that strips XSS vectors from untrusted markup while preserving the tags and attributes you choose to keep.

4,619
MIT
Used by 42
91Health
Library npm

BullMQ

Fast, reliable Redis-based message queue and background job processing for Node.js and TypeScript.

9,396
MIT
Used by 41
44Health
Library npm

crypto-js

A JavaScript library of crypto standards - hashing, HMAC, PBKDF2, and symmetric ciphers for Node.js and the browser.

16,409
MIT
Used by 40
92Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

331
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
89Health
Framework npm

Better Auth

The most comprehensive, framework-agnostic authentication and authorization framework for TypeScript.

29,933
MIT
Used by 37
92Health
Framework Composer

PHPUnit

The de facto standard, programmer-oriented unit testing framework for PHP.

20,055
BSD 3
Used by 34
74Health
Library npm

helmet

Secure Node and Express apps by setting protective HTTP response headers with a single line of middleware.

10,735
MIT
Used by 32
93Health
Library Composer

Guzzle

An extensible PHP HTTP client for sending requests and integrating with web services

23,455
MIT
Used by 31
85Health
Library npm

express-rate-limit

Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.

3,305
MIT
Used by 30
78Health
Library npm

otplib

TypeScript-first TOTP and HOTP library with a pluggable crypto/base32 architecture for Node, Bun, Deno, and browsers.

2,290
MIT
Used by 22
98Health
Framework Composer

Laravel

The expressive, elegant PHP framework for building modern web applications

34,910
MIT
Used by 21
84Health
Library npm

http-proxy-middleware

The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.

11,126
MIT
Used by 20
55Health
Library Composer

Collision

Beautiful command-line error reporting for PHP apps and test suites

4,658
MIT
Used by 18
48Health
Library npm

forge

A native, pure-JavaScript implementation of TLS and PKI cryptography for building crypto-based Node.js and browser apps.

5,331
Other
Used by 17
55Health
Library npm

rate-limiter-flexible

Atomic and non-atomic counters and rate-limiting tools that protect against DoS and brute-force attacks at any scale

3,585
Other
Used by 16
84Health
Library npm

got

Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js, with retries, streams, pagination, and RFC 7234 caching built in.

14,940
MIT
Used by 15
46Health
Library PyPI

itsdangerous

A small Python toolkit for cryptographically signing data so you can trust it hasn't been tampered with when it comes back from an untrusted client.

3,134
BSD 3
Used by 15

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